Reviews
Woody Pines
New Hampshire-born Woody Pines mines the American folk, ragtime, country blues, hillbilly and proto-rock’n’roll songbooks: the songs were spilling out...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
The Rough Guide to the Blues Songsters
The African-American songster tradition was for many years regarded as a poor relation of the Delta blues: its repertoire of...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
New York Boogaloo
Boogaloo is the infectious Latin-soul dance craze of the late 60s and early 70s that brought the world ‘I Like...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
Rastafari: The Dreads Enter Babylon 1955-83
A dreadlocked mane, popularised eternally by Bob Marley, is an iconic image for Jamaican music. But would Rastafari have become...
Reviewed in issue November/2015
Amor y Muerte
This CD comes with a bright cover illustration and is full of roaring horns and fiery percussion. But this Brighton-based...
Reviewed in issue November/2015
Two Universes
Feufollet started out as a Cajun children's band before maturing into one of the most exciting young bands in the...
Reviewed in issue November/2015
Little Hinges
Structured in two parts, Qristina and Quinn Bachand's third album finds the Canadian siblings on a mission to broaden the...
Reviewed in issue November/2015
Secret Victory
There was an impressive self-titled EP last year from this Canadian power-folk trio but their live-sounding, full-length album debut is...
Reviewed in issue November/2015
The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Cumbia
The ever-growing thirst for Peruvian cumbia (sometimes known as chicha) is showing no signs of being satiated. What started in...
Reviewed in issue November/2015
What Pan Did for Me
Visitors to Port of Spain's legendary carnival will recall Panorama, the steel band competition at which bands – some up...
Reviewed in issue November/2015
